Intergenerational transmission of attachment: A qualitative study on eight adopted children
Researchers analysed attachment narratives from eight late-adopted adolescents, using story-stem assessments in childhood and Friends and Family Interviews in early adolescence. Positive and negative representations were compared according to their adoptive parents’ attachment classifications. Young people placed with parents classified as secure showed increasing positive representations and fewer negative representations over time.
Limitations: Eight selected young people cannot establish population patterns. Interpretative classifications and observational associations do not demonstrate that parental attachment caused changes. Direct child narratives are distinct from parental attachment interviews. Other Anna Freud/Coram publications use overlapping participants. The research collaboration includes Coram, an adoption service provider, and CoramBAAF, a sector organisation, alongside Anna Freud. Readers may consider these institutional relationships.
- Research type
- Longitudinal qualitative study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Coram / Anna Freud longitudinal adoption attachment study
Institutional context: Adoption service provider / adoption-sector organisation
The research collaboration includes Coram, an adoption service provider, and CoramBAAF, a sector organisation, alongside Anna Freud. Readers may consider these institutional relationships.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adolescence, adoptee voice, attachment, longitudinal research
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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